Inexperienced storm chasers caused more problems to an already dangerous situation when Kansas was hit with over a hundred tornadoes earlier this month.

A local emergency coordinator chastized the dozens of people who lined up their cars along a highway as they waited and watched the impending storm grow and move in their direction.

'There were morons out there. There were plenty,' said Chancy Smith, the director of Dickinson County Emergency Management.

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Professional: Brad Mack, shown here, is one of the experienced storm chasers who is seeing more amateurs trying to do his work

He toldThe Kansas City Starthat the onlookers caused serious problems for the emergency workers who were trying to quickly respond to damage during the April 14 storm that included a total of 122 tornadoes.

All told, five people died and an estimated 37 were injured from the day's tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.

The uptick of citizen storm chasers is worrying rescue workers who have to deal with increased crowds- who may be in danger themselves- while trying to react to a crisis.

'It was like a funeral procession, bumper to bumper. It was horrible,' he told the paper.

Danger: This photo was uploaded by a man named Rich Anderson who wrote 'Went storm chasing in Oklahoma after work today. Caught one.'

Peggy Willenberg, a trained meteorologist who has been chasing storms for a dozen years, felt nervous for the amateurs she saw during the recent Kansas storm because they were ill-prepared and treating the event like live theater rather than a potential natural disaster.

'What I saw is people out there that didn't have any sort of equipment,' Ms Willenberg told the Portland Press Herald.

'I saw cars full of kids on the road. Families is what I'm talking about.'

Technology: Updated smartphones are making the expensive technology used by the likes of Mr Mack less necessary and allowing more people to chase storms

Though many would be scared of an impending natural disaster, Mr Smith places blame with the popularization of storm chasing as a result of reality television shows like Stormchasers, which was cancelled this year but ran on the Discovery Channel for five seasons.

On top of that, smartphones provide key tracking and recording technology so that the average person could feasibly do what only specialists were able to do years ago.

Referring to a group of people who gathered alongside Kansas Highway 18 during the storm, Mr Smith said that the weather conditions and time of the tornado didn't help dissuade the would-be storm photographers.

'It was a photogenic tornado. People saw it and felt safe. They were just utterly idiotic,' he said.